MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
digital education technology are empowering
learners
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
experiments.
Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses.
Corporations want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
demand for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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